Adventurers Afloat, a nautical bibliography

a comprehensive guide to books in English recounting the adventures of amateur sailors upon the waters of the world in yachts, boats, and other devices; and including works on the arts and sciences of cruising, racing, seamanship, navigation, design, building, etc., from the earliest writings through 1986

by Ernest W. Toy

The Scarecrow Press, 1988.

a very comprehensive and invaluable reference work of almost 1200 pages, with over 5500 entries, many with full descriptive information.

a superb history of American yachting that originally appeared as a series of articles in the magazine ‘Motor Boating’ between 1939 and 1946.

This is the first collected edition, containing all 83 articles, biographical sketches of the author, and an index, together with close on 300 plans, drawings and photographs, and the lines of 141 individual yachts

a superb history of American yachting that originally appeared as a series of articles in the magazine ‘Motor Boating’ between 1939 and 1946.

the most complete edition, containing all 83 articles, biographical sketches of the author, and an index, together with close on 300 plans, drawings and photographs, and the lines of 141 individual yachts.

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